Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,
WEB
For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
YLT
For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.
DBT
For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.